Campus and Community Involvement

I take pleasure in engaging in any event that celebrates the beauty of cultures, raises awareness about health and social
issues or involves being outdoors.

As
of right now I am a Resident Advisor at Cougar Village for the Honors
Wing and I absolutely love it. It’s been one of
the most rewarding experiences of my undergraduate career. I have also
been a Biochemistry I facilitator and it was an extremely fun challenge.
I’ve also been a Senator for Student Government Association and helped
with the push to make UH a tobacco free institution
and that dream is finally becoming a reality in Summer 2013. Finally,
my faith is really important to me and I spend a lot of time at a
neighborhood church helping with the youth and attending weekly bible
studies and Sunday services.

Awards and Honors

I
am an HLSAMP Scholar; The Houston Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority
Participation provides a family that guides minorities
in STEM majors to seize every opportunity and make the best of our
experiences while pursuing a degree. I am also a member of the Houston
Premedical Academy, which is a partnership between Michael E. DeBakey
HSHP, the University of Houston, and Baylor College
of Medicine providing conditional acceptance into BCM’s Class of 2018.

Study Abroad

I
want to be able to completely immerse myself in a foreign culture and
fall irrevocably in love with its language, its
music, its history, its land, and most importantly, its people. I want
to leave the country feeling as if I have a second home away from the
United States. Of course, I would love to do so while mastering the
language.

It is finally happening! I will be in San Jose, Costa Rica during Fall 2013 in an Environmental Biology program and I cannot
contain my excitement!

Research

Anthropological
or public health fieldwork interests me. I crave hands –on research
that will allow to me to educate
the population on the importance of healthy habits, interact with
people from all fields and backgrounds, and hopefully aid an improvement
in the quality of life for a community.I
haven’t discovered my research project yet, but I have a hunch I’ll be
dealing with health disparities in underserved communities.

Future Endeavors

Since
junior high I have always envisioned myself engaged in a career that
fuses my love for children and passion for science
to assist society with its multitude of problems in healthcare. By the
year 2020, I will proudly have M.D./M.P.H. placed after my name. Or
maybe an M.D. with a Ph.D. in medical anthropology. I don’t know but I
can guarantee that I will definitely be highly
involved in social medicine and activism.